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Monthly Archives: April 2018

Storytellers in Carroll take their stories public in multiple ways

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER CARROLL, Iowa, April 26, 2018 — You want voters to understand how important the public library is to people of all ages? You want to have fun with old-timers recalling happy moments in their lives? You want to wake up people about the seriousness of sexual assault in our rural communities?  Then…

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April 26, 2018 in OFFENBLOGGER.

“This cancer isn’t just about me; it involves our whole family, right?”

We Offenburgers have written many stories about our own cancer journeys.  We’ve read and heard the stories of many others in the “Cancer Club,” as we sometimes call it.  On Saturday, April 21, 2018, during the Greene County Relay for Life, we heard this tremendous cancer story, told by Lou Blanchfield, of rural Churdan, Iowa.…

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April 22, 2018 in Guest Column.

Our haunting memory of the night Rev. MLK Jr. was killed in Memphis

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, April 3, 2018 — Fifty years ago this week, a college pal Mark McCrackin and I spent a night in “a unique moment and place in American history,” as he later wrote of it. We spent that night, April 4, 1968, in the rooms of the Rev. Martin Luther King…

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April 2, 2018 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Four things you should know about MLK Jr., from my up-close view

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, April 3, 2018 – My older brother Tom Offenburger’s three years as press secretary to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. – 1966-’68, the last three years of King’s life – paralleled my years as a student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. And that enabled me to have some highly…

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April 2, 2018 in OFFENBLOGGER.

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